Binder



(No Model.)

B. WANSLEBEN.

BINDER.

No. 400,147. Patented Mar. 26, 1889..

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U IN VEIVTOR.

I BY

EMIL XVANSLEBEN, OF CREFELD, PRUSSIA, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY ROIIR, OF ST. JOHN, KANSAS.

BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,147, dated March 26, 1889.

Application filed October 20, 1888. Serial No. 288,710. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL ANSLEBEN, of Crefeld, Prussia, Germany, have invented a new an d Improved Binder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in binders, and has for its object to provide a binder of simple construction, wherein a double sheet, or a series of double sheets, constituting a newspaper, pamphlet, or a magazine may be conveniently and expeditiously bound and quickly and readily removed from the binding when desired.

The further object of the invention is to provide a binder in which a single or double sheet containing an illustration extending across the fold may be bound in such manner that the entire illustration will be clearly visible.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims. I Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specifition, in which similar letters of reference 1ndicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the binder, illustrating the application of the sheets. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the open binder minus the sheets, and Fig. 3 is a top edge view of the same. Fig. at is a side elevation of the blnding mechanism, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the needle.

In carrying out the invention, A represents a portfolio having attached to the lnner face of the back a, near the top and bottom, angled brackets a. The brackets to are preferably made of metal, and are purposed to retain in a fixed position a plate or bar, B, disposed longitudinally of the back, the said bar belng secured to the brackets in any approved manner. The vertical members of the brackets are located at or near the intersection of the back of the portfolio with one of the sides I), as best illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, and from the bar B a series of pins, 1), are projected at a right angle to the inner face, which pins are respectively located at the ends and center, extending outward parallel and preferably an equal distance with the horizontal member of the brackets. Two or more pins may be employed, according to the length of the portfolio. A second plate or bar, D, preferably of equal size with the fixed plate B, is provided with a series of apertures corresponding in location and number with the pins 1). Upon the outer face of the detachable apertured bar D springs (Z are held to slide, their movement being limited by studs d integral with the bar projecting through elongated apertures (1 produced in thesprings, as best shown in Figure 4. A spring d is placed between eaclr-two apertures in the detachable bar, and a semicircular recess, (1 is formed in each extremity of the said spring, adapted to bear against the pins b when the device is in use. The springs d are slightly bowed and are expanded by sleeves E, sliding upon the detachable bar over the springs.

The needle E, employed in connection with the device, consists of a strip of wire of suitable length and thickness, bent upon itself to form a series of staples, e, the number of staples corresponding to the number of pins 1).

In operation suitable openings are made in the leaves or sheets to be bound, and the staples of the needle are passed through said openings, as shown in Fig. 1. The several sheets or leaves being thus prepared, the staples are passed over the pins Z), and the said pins are made to enter the apertures in the detachable bar D, which is pressed in contact with the contiguous needle, or essentially so.

The bar is held in position by sliding the sleeves E to the center of the springs, whereupon the springs being elongated their re cessed ends are forced to a rigid engagement with the outer ends of the said pins b. The bar D may be readily detached and the needles removed or added to by simply sliding the sleeves to one end of the springs and pulling the bar D outward.

Having thus described my invention, What I 5 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a portfolio or similar cover, of a binder consisting of a rigid pin-carrying bar, a detachable aperturcd bar, IOF

springslield ioslide upon said detachablebar, l earrying, bar seeured lo the brackets, a de and sleeves sliding,- over l llG bar and springs, l tmjiliable a- 'ieriiureil bar, springs sliding upon substantially as shown and deseribed. ilie same, sleeves sliding over the (lOliiHfilliLblG The eoinbination, with a prnriilj'olio or i bar and springs, and. needles constructed of similar eover, of a binder consisting of a l a wire rod bent to form a series of connected rigid pin-carrying bar, a detaeliable aperstaples, all combined substantially as shown tnred bar, springs held to slide upon said i and deseribed. delaeliable bar, sleeves Sllilll'LL," ever the bar Y 1 and springs, and needles constructed of a PAUL ANSHHEN' wire rod bent to form a series of staples, sub- \Vitnesses: sl'antially as shown and described. J'. 11. POTTER,

A binder consisting of brackets, a pin- JOHS. SCHI'bssER. 

